Matters of care : speculative ethics in more than human worlds / María Puig de la Bellacasa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Puig de la Bellacasa, María, author.

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

Series:

Posthumanities ; 41.

Posthumanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Caring.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

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Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Caring can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good; it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Merely human? In Matters of Care, María Puig de la Bellacasa presents a powerful challenge to conventional notions of care, exploring its significance as an ethical and political obligation for thinking in the more than human worlds of technoscience and naturecultures. Matters of Care contests the view that care is something only humans do. It emphasizes the nonhuman agencies and communities that comprise the living web of care by considering how care circulates in the natural world. Exploring the ethics and politics of care, experiential research on care, and feminist science and technology studies, Matters of Care is a singular contribution to an emerging interdisciplinary debate that expands agency beyond the human to ask our understandings of care must shift if we were to broaden our concept of the world. Book jacket.

Contents:

The subtle thought of care

Knowledge politics

Assembling neglected "things"

Thinking with care

Touching visions

Speculative ethics in antiecological times

Alterbiopolitics

Soil times: the pace of ecological care.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 8, 2017).

ISBN:

9781452953465

1452953465

Publisher Number:

40026977905

Access Restriction:

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